Yugambeh’s Digital Language Journey featured in International Journal
The Yugambeh language’s digital journey has been captured in the prestigious International Journal on Digital Studies 2025.
The 12-page article traces the origins of community language revival from the 1980s through to the development of Australia’s first language app in 2012. It also examines the work of Rory O’Connor and other community members with Google Arts and Culture to produce Woolaroo in 2019, a free-to-access web-based language app that is now used by Indigenous communities world-wide.
The article is co-authored by SEQILC Director Rory O’Connor and Cat Kutay, an Aboriginal linguist and scholar from Charles Darwin University, Northern Territory.
Aboriginal Author Cat Kutay from Charles Darwin University spent two years working on the story of Yugambeh’s digital journey.
